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In the first paper of January next we design commenclDg the 

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Six Weeks of Courtship. 

 By .Mks. EiHLIE F. CARLEX, Author of " One Year of Wed- 

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Mark, the Sexton, 



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" Home Pictures," &c. 



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December 1, 1854.— 2t 



GODEY'S LiADY'S BOOK 



FOR 185.5. 



TWENTY-FIFTH TEAR OF FUBLIOATION BY TS2 

 SAME PUBLISHER. 



The only Lady's Book ackijowledged by the Ladies of thia coaotiT' 

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